AUTHOR-APPROVED Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology Technicities of Perception Ryan Bishop and John Phillips 'An intelligent, imaginative, wide-ranging and lucid work...what is especially remarkable about the book is its stunning range of examples and cases, which include /Finnegans Wake/, Transformer toys, Malaysian gothic thrillers, poems by Keats and Blake, the war in Bosnia, ventriloquism, diaspora and the Cold-War and postcolonial formations in South East Asia.' Professor Simon During, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University 'A richly fascinating, very wise book which launches a brave, telling, and at times, devastating cultural critique of the military-industrial complex. The arguments which praise the modernist avant-garde for its prescience and also its techniques of resistance to war technology are startling, refreshing and brilliant.' Professor Adam Piette, School of English, University of Sheffield /Analyses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experimental arts alongside current state-of-the-art military technology/ Through close readings of the art and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Stéphane Mallarmé, the Italian Futurists and H. G. Wells alongside the Apache attack helicopters, Network-Centric Warfare, satellites, decoys, sirens and radios, the book shows that a Modernist aesthetic renders clearer the operations of the vast surveillance and killing machines of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton. John Phillips is Associate Professor in the English Language and Literature Program at the National University of Singapore.

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).

John Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory (Zed, 2000), co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (Routledge, 2004), co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (Routledge 2003), and co-editor, with Lyndsey Stonebridge, of Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge, 1998).